Includes index

The elephant's child / Rudyard Kipling -- A lion and a mouse / Aesop -- A wolf in sheep's clothing / Aesop -- Aladdin and the wonderful lamp / Anonymous -- Lochinvar / Sir Walter Scott -- The man from Snowy River / A.B. Paterson -- "If you talk to animals ..." / Chief Dan George -- The train dogs / E. Pauline Johnson -- The riverbank / Kenneth Grahame -- Baucis and Philemon / Anonymous -- The grasshopper and the ants / Aesop -- The town mouse and the country mouse / Aesop -- The carefree miller / Edith Fowke -- The village blacksmith / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Rebecca / Hilaire Belloc -- The woman who flummoxed the fairies / Sorche Nic Leodhas -- Two of everything / Alice Ritchie -- The origin of stories / Elizabeth Clark -- Proserpine / Anonymous -- The shepherd's boy / Aesop -- Belling the cat / Aesop -- Hansel and Grethel / The Brothers Grimm -- The brave little tailor / The Brothers Grimm -- The highwayman / Alfred Noyes -- The wizard / Jack Prelutsky -- The miraculous hind / Elizabeth Cleaver

The ugly duckling / Hans Christian Andersen -- The owl and the pussy-cat / Edward Lear -- How Glooskap found the summer / Charles Godfrey Leland -- Mutt makes his mark / Farley Mowat -- The dog and his shadow / Aesop -- The goose with the golden eggs / Aesop -- The elephant and his son / Arnold Lobel -- Snow-White amd the seven dwarfs / The Brothers Grimm -- Rapunzel / The Brothers Grimm -- A mad tea-party / Lewis Carroll -- Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost -- The miller, his son, and the ass / Aesop -- The hare and the tortoise / Aesop -- The cat and the pain-killer / Mark Twain -- Introduction to Songs of innocence / William Blake -- Eeyore loses a tail and Pooh finds one / A.A. Milne -- Mother to son / Langston Hughes -- Dreams / Langston Hughes -- The general's horse / Robert Davis -- The charge of the Light Brigade / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Song of the witches / William Shakespeare

Alligator pie / Dennis Lee -- Young Black Beauty / Anna Sewell -- The Bremen Town musicians / The Brothers Grimm -- Set sail for Treasure Island! / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Arithmetic / Carl Sandburg -- Marilla Cuthbert is surprised / L.M. Montgomery -- The little match girl / Hans Christian Andersen -- Nonsense verse / Anonymous -- Swift things are beautiful / Elizabeth Coatsworth -- The Raggedy Man / James Whitcomb Riley -- From tiger to Anansi / Philip M. Sherlock -- Playing pilgrims / Louisa May Alcott -- Staver and his wife Vassilissa / Hans Baumann -- The devil's trick / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- A visit from St. Nicholas / Clement Clarke Moore -- All things bright and beautiful / Cecil Frances Alexander

A selection of traditional tales from Russia, Germany, Greece, France, Sweden, and other countries

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